Canonical Voiceshttp://voices.canonical.comCanonical VoicesTue, 01 Apr 2014 15:52:35 -0000Canonical Design Blog: Cisco and Canonical application-driven cloud and datacentre collaborationhttp://insights.ubuntu.com/news/cisco-and-canonical-application-driven-cloud-and-datacentre-collaboration/<p dir="ltr">Canonical and Cisco share a common vision around the direction of the cloud and the application-driven datacentre. We believe both need to quickly respond to an application’s needs and be highly elastic.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1374520">Cisco&#8217;s announcement</a> of an open approach with OpFlex is a great step towards to an application centric cloud and datacenter. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure policy engine (APIC) makes the policy model APIs and documentation open to the marketplace. These policies will be freely usable by an emerging ecosystem that is adopting an open policy model. Canonical and Cisco are aligned in efforts to leverage open models to accelerate innovation in the cloud and datacenter.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cisco&#8217;s ACI operational model will drive multi-vendor innovation, bringing greater agility, simplicity and scale. Opening the ACI policy engine (APIC) to multi-vendor infrastructure is a positive step to open source cloud and datacenter operations. This aligns with the Canonical open strategy for the cloud and datacenter. Canonical is a firm believer in a strong and open ecosystem. We take great pride that you can build an OpenStack cloud on Ubuntu from all the major participants in the OpenStack ecosystem (Cisco, Dell, HP, Mirantis and more). The latest <a href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/11/openstack-user-survey-october-2013/">OpenStack Foundation survey of production OpenStack</a> deployments found 55% of them on Ubuntu &#8211; that’s over twice the number of deployments than the next operating system. We believe a healthy and open ecosystem is the best way to ensure great choice for our collective customers.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Canonical is pleased to be a member of Cisco&#8217;s OpFlex ecosystem. Canonical and Cisco intend to collaborate in the standards process. As the standard is finalised, Cisco and Canonical will integrate their company’s technology to improve the customer experience. This includes alignment of Canonical&#8217;s Juju and KVM with Cisco&#8217;s ACI model.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cisco and Canonical believe there are opportunities to leverage Ubuntu, Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju, Canonical&#8217;s service orchestration, with Cisco&#8217;s ACI policy-based model. We see many companies moving to Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack that use Cisco network and compute technology. The collaboration of Canonical with Cisco towards an application centric cloud and datacenter is an opportunity for our mutual customers.</p>nospam@nospam.com (John Zannos)Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:52:35 -0000http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/cisco-and-canonical-application-driven-cloud-and-datacentre-collaboration/ciscocloudnews